Remember the Cyber Ninjas? The company was hired by Arizona Republicans to conduct an audit of the vote count in the state’s largest county. On Thursday night, Cyber Ninjas announced it going out of business.
The Daily Beast writes:
The dramatic announcement came a day after elections officials in Maricopa County determined that 76 of the 77 claims made in the Cyber Ninjas report into the county’s 2020 election were false or misleading. The debunked report had been used by Donald Trump and his loss-denying allies as evidence that the 2020 election was stolen from him. On Thursday, a judge said he will fine the company $50,000 a day if it doesn’t immediately turn over public records related to the deeply partisan audit.
“Cyber Ninjas is shutting down. All employees have been let go.”
Rod Thomson, Company Representative via NBC News
After the audit was completed, state Republicans announced Joe Biden had won 360 more votes than Maricopa county originally awarded him.
“Truth is truth. Numbers are numbers,” Arizona Senate President Karen Fann said at a hearing last year on the review of the audit.
State Senate Republicans hired Cyber Ninjas to conduct an election audit of ballots in Maricopa County, the state’s most populous county, after Biden flipped the state to blue for the first time in decades — beating former President Donald Trump by more than 10,400 votes.
NBC News